Check-row planter



(No Model.)

W. G. WOODS.

CHECK BOW PLANTER'.

, Patented May 5, 188-5.

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UNITED STATES- PATENT OrFicE.

WILLIAM c. woons, or ALPHA, MISSOURI.

CHECK-ROW PLANTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,067, dated May 5, 1885 Application filed February 27, 1884. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM 0. Icons, a citizen of the United States, residing at Alpha, in the county of Grundy and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Check-Row Planters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of this improvement is to obtain a central draft, simple and economically construoted, check-row corn-planter of more perfeet action than is practicable with other machines of its class.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the parts as will be hereinafter fully explained and specifically claimed. These results are attained by the mechanism illustrated in the drawings herewith filed as part hereof, and in which similar letters of reference denote the same parts throughout the different views.

' Figurel is a side elevation. Fig. 2 is a top view. Fig. 3 is a vertical section. Fig. 4 is a sectional side elevation. Fig. 5 is a view of some of the parts detached from the machine for more complete illustration.

A A A A represent the frame to which the working parts are attached.

B are the transporting-wheels having their axles at the ends of the transverse beam A.

F F are curved transverse metal bars connecting the seed-boxes D. seed-conduits L, and runners N. The seed'conduits L are recessed castings having enlarged chambers at their upper parts, in which are located pocketed disks E, which divide the seed preparatory to the same being dropped to the ground. The disks E are affixed to the shaft M, which passes through the seed-conduits L, and is supported thereby. The seed-conduits L have flanges l at the upper ends, to which are affixed the transverse bars F F and the seed-boxes D D, which are located immediately over the disks E, which are rotated by the motion of the shaft M. The seed -boxes D D connect by openings inthe bottoms with the rotating disks E, which, by reason of having pockets in their peripheries, as more fully shown in Fig. 3, periodically receive a corresponding quantity of the seed from the boxes D D and primarily drop it into the seed-conduits L. The inner sides of the rotating disks E are provided with radiallugs e, as shown at Fig. 5.

In the openings at the fronts of the seedconduits L and pivoted thereto, as shown at '5, Figs. 1 and 5, are the seed-valves I, which close the seed-conduits L at their lower ends, except when the upper ends of the valves I come in contact with lugs e on the sides of the disks E, as shown at i in Fig. 5, when the lower ends of the seed-valves will move out ward and thereby open the seed-conduits at bottoms Z and allow the seed to drop to the ground. The lower ends of the seed-valves I are constantly forced back to their normal position by springs J, attached to the conduits by bolts or screws K. The pressure of the springs J against the inside of the seed-valves I causes them to instantaneously close the seedconduits after passing the points of the lugs e, and to keep them closed until the valves I come in contact with the next lug, whereby the operation is periodically repeated and the seed is dropped at regular distances in the furrows made by the runners N at their enlarged ends N. The lower ends of the seedconduits are several inches above the furrows and the motions of the seed-valves I are not exposed to fouling and obstruction by contact with the loose earth.

Located centrally with the machine on the shaft M is a pulley, 0, having V-faced periphery. The pulley 0 stands in line with pulleys G G, which are supported by bars 9, attached to beams A A at the front and rear of the machine.

A rope or wire, H, is laid across thefield in line with the rows to be planted, and is made fast by stakes or otherwise at-the sides of the field after being connected with the machine, substantially as shown, in a way to engage with and give motion to the pulley O as the machine advances.

The team goes astride the check-row or wire H. The team is attached to the machine in the ordinary manner, by tongue and whiflietrees. The wire H runs on the pulleys G G, substantially as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 4, and must be changed and adjusted at the ends of the rows when turning to go back.

In combination, the shaft M, provided with central pulley, G, and seed-conduits L L, having springs J and valves I, arranged to operate by contact with springs J, and lugs e, on the disks E, substantially as specified, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affiX my signature in 20 presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM C. WOODS.

WVit-nesses:

H. J. HAMMOND, H. B. PHILLIrs.

pocketed disks E E, the I 5 

